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Cybercrime is as old as the Internet and despite the government’s powers of electronic surveillance, it’s still thriving. How is it still possible to be anonymous online? Also, Bradley Manning is sentenced to 35 years in prison, and grassroots
plans for protests against immigration reform aren’t panning out during the
Congressional recess.

Tea
Party Patriots, Numbers USA and other groups opposed to immigration reform had
big plans for raising crowds on the home turfs of Congress members and Senators
during the August recess. Pro-reformers
had the same idea. How is
it turning out? Molly Ball is a
political reporter for the Atlantic magazine.

Army
Pfc. Bradley Manning was sentenced today for leaking hundreds of thousands of
classified documents. After 3 years of
legal wrangling and a a court martial that lasted for months: it’s 35 years in
prison. Michael Scherer is the Washington Bureau Chief for Time.

Revelations
about the government’s electronic surveillance have raised alarms about
privacy. Today's Wall Street Journal reports that the National Security Agency’s capacity is even broader than has reported before—enabling it to reach " roughly 75% of all US Internet traffic."Is there any way to use the
Internet secretly? Yes,
there is. It's the Darknet, available
through software that allows anonymous browsing—and, increasingly—provides
opportunities for organized crime. On Silk
Road, for example, customers can find LSD, cocaine and heroin as if they were
shopping on Amazon — anonymously. Why
hasn't the government cracked down? Are
there legitimate reasons for Internet users to conceal their identities?